With the increase demand of mobile counselling services and many who struggle to communicate a short version of en English sentence, we’ve got an interesting service that you can use in Google Talk that will convert your English to Mobile Chat.
To make use of this bot just add the following as a contact in your [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The Art of Mobile Counselling Part 4
Posted: 26th October 2009 by Marlon in Innovation, MobileTags: Mobile, Mobile Counselling
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Reconstructed Living Lab
Posted: 24th October 2009 by Marlon in Innovation, UncategorizedTags: Innovation, Reconstructe Living Lab, RLabs
With only a few days away (31 October) from one of the most exciting events on Mobile Technology for Social Change in Cape Town it is one that should not be missed. This event is being hosted by Cell-Life and Mobile Active with a quality programme for the day. The programme for the day is [...]
Reduction in South African Cellphone tarrifs
Posted: 12th October 2009 by Marlon in Mobile, NewsTags: cellphones, Mobile
The department said yesterday that it wanted to see interconnection rates – which cellphone operators pay each other for switching a call between networks – to drop by 30c, from R1.25 to R0.95 by the end of November and by an additional 30c over the next year.
With the number of mobile phones available to consumers [...]
Mobilising Western Cape against Substance Abuse
Posted: 12th October 2009 by Marlon in Innovation, MobileTags: Mobile, Mobile Counselling, reconstructed, Substance Abuse
This morning part of a dream came to a reality for me as we had representatives from various non-profits, NGOs, Government departments, community groups and citizens coming together to plan the rollout of a Western Cape Mobile Substance Abuse Counselling Service. As a group we are piloting a distributed mobile counselling service across the Western [...]
300 Plus for National AIDS Helpline
Posted: 10th October 2009 by Marlon in Innovation, MobileTags: HIV/AIDS, Mobile, Mobile Counselling
The past week we saw an increase in number of subscribers to the National AIDS Helpline Mobile Chat service. The service, managed by Cell Life, currently have 360 subscribers and this week alone in 8 hours 148 conversations took place related to HIV/AIDS. With HIV/AIDS impacting millions of lives in Southern Africa being able to [...]